Noticing something is amiss with SwiftKey lately? You are not alone. The keyboard's sync service has been broken for the last three days, and there's no sign of a resolution yet. SwiftKey is aware of the problem, though.

One of the nifty things about SwiftKey is that it includes Google account login for syncing your typing data. That means custom phrases and suggestions will be available in the keyboard. Without sync, no new words can be sent to the cloud or downloaded to devices. As long as you don't log out, uninstall SwiftKey, or attempt to log in on a new device, you should still have your existing predictions.

There's a forum thread on the SwiftKey website where developers have acknowledged the problem. That was a few days ago, though. Hopefully it won't be much longer before sync is up and running again.

Some SwiftKey users began reporting recently that the keyboard was delivering them predictions from other accounts. That was a few days before this sync outage started. We reached out to Swiftkey at the time. They were looking into it last we heard, but the timing of this outage is extremely suspicious. Was sync disabled because of the prediction issue? We've pinged SK again to see if they have any comment and will update if they get back to us.

Unlikely. Swiftkey can detect a password field and disable predictions. This assumes the site/app has a proper password field.

It does predict and store usernames and emails, which is actually pretty useful for me.

Mix

That sounds safe for sure!

Alan S

Swiftkey is my go to keyboard and I love that I can use it simultaneously between Irish, my native language and English my secondary keyboard without the need to switch languages a la Google Keyboard. The fact that people are seeing others' data has me seriously and concerned... 😓

gonsa sba

Not passwords. SwiftKey does not store or predict that, only usernames or e-mails.

pr0grammer1

Most of the time -- but if a website doesn't correctly mark a field as a password field in its source, then any keyboard app (SwiftKey or otherwise) won't be able to tell that it's a password field and will store the password as a suggestion.

Same here. It is one less thing to worry about our sensitive stuff being stored somewhere else.

Mix

Would this cause freezing or stuttering issues?

My S6 has froze on me a few times this past week and every single time the keyboard tray has been open and I have been typing and I have to wait 5-15 seconds before I can do anything.

Rod

No.

antonio cesar

that is a known problem with your iteration of device(s6/note 5)

Dayne Putnam

I can unfortunately vouch for that

Mix

Well shit, thanks for letting me know!

Alan S

Swiftkey is my go to keyboard and I love that I can use it simultaneously between Irish, my native language and English my secondary keyboard without the need to switch languages a la Google Keyboard. The fact that people are seeing others' data has me seriously and concerned... 😓